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This is "not that different" from getting a very high load spike do you guys not have some autoscaling setup?

We do, but it didn't help given the cause of the high cpu was our logging infrastructure (Amazon Kinesis) being overloaded by the webservers.

Does kinesis not support UDP sylog style logging, some of these old technologies had the right idea: if your sending too much data, drop the packets on the floor instead of falling over!

Autoscaling as not necessary driven by CPU load.

true but by default it is

You'd think that would be at least one metric...

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